How does the freeform surface tool work?

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I keep trying to use the freeform surface tool, but for me it does nothing. If I create a cube, select one surface, it tells me to start sketching curves, but nothing happens. no matter what I do, click, pan, move etc, the tool does nothing. after I click, it tells me that it is “generating surface” but the model never changes, and the tool never does anything. Am I missing something? can someone explain how this tool is supposed to be used?

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Sure, have you seen the tutorial video? Just tap on the name of the tool. If not, check it out, but I would be happy to make a new video if it is not clear.

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I’ve seen the video - but when I try to add contour lines, no lines show up. It makes the clicking sound, but it doesn’t draw anything.

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  1. Select a face
  2. You can add a contour point where the dot is green. You can’t add a contour point if the dot is red. You have to start and finish the new contour at an existing contour, or face boundary. Press the pencil to add a new point.
  3. Select a control point with the pencil to move it.
  4. Sometimes the generation of the final surface can be rather time consuming.

Let me know if this helped.

Here you go:

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Did this help, or it still doesn’t work?

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This was very helpful for me, thank you. I forgot to click the “i” for help. When I saw the video and the way it worked I was like, “Whoa!”. One small suggestion, after every drag and release it generates a new surface, it would be helpful if you could do multiple manipulations and then give the software the “OK” to generate a new surface. Just found this tonight and it is super exciting! :smiley:

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